Startup Airlines, which operates a low rate service from certain states, has found a new customer in immigration and customs application. Avelo, based in Houston, has signed an agreement to exploit expulsion flights outside the country while carrying migrants in detention centers in the United States, the Wall Street Journal Reports. Three planes “painted all white without logos” will leave Mesa, Arizona, from next month, reports the point of sale. Although Alo says that he also piloted charter flights for ice during the Biden administration, the move angry the established customers of Avelo, his employees, even the designer behind his logo and his livery, by Fast business.
More than 34,000 people have signed an online petition committing not to fly with Avelo unless the airline withdraws from the ice agreement. The union representing the agents of Avelo has argued that the chained and handcuffed passengers would hinder responses to the emergency rooms in flight, while the Connecticut legislators threatened not to extend a suspension of the aviation fuel taxes which helped Avelo to develop in the state, according to the state, according to the state, Newspaper. Connecticut’s prosecutor general, William Tong, described expulsion flights as “cruel by design and a lot of taxpayer resources”.
Avelo CEO Andrew Levy admitted that some could consider the decision as “controversial”, but said that the opportunity “was too precious not to continue”. He “will offer us the stability to continue to expand our basic programmed passenger service and keep our more than 1,100 crew members employed for the coming years,” he told KPNX. The airline failed to break even last year and suffered more defeats in the last quarter. By agreeing to join the small network of ICE charter operators, Avelo should earn coherent work and good income. A carrier who piloted approximately 60 flights per month for ice before depositing the bankruptcy in 2023 won around $ 4 million per week, the Newspaper Reports. (More deportation stories.)